museums

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  7/9/19
  

  What and Whom Are Jewish Museums For?

  What is the role of a Jewish museum? Is it for the Jewish community, or those non-Jews around it? And must its leader be Jewish?

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  7/15/19
  

  Angered by This Roosevelt Statue? A Museum Wants Visitors to Weigh In

  Conversation about monuments has reached a fever pitch, and the city was split on this one. The American Museum of Natural History is opening an exhibition on it.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  7/14/2019
  

  Founder Of African American History Museum Discovered Dead

  Sadie Roberts-Joseph, 75, was discovered on Friday afternoon in the trunk of a car about 3 miles from her home.

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• 6/25/19
  

  10 Things To Check Out At the Library of Congress’s New Exhibit on Women’s Suffrage

  by Andrew Fletcher

  Highlights from the exhibit on women's suffrage at the Library of Congress. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/13/19
  

  Clarence Thomas says a Smithsonian exhibit about him is wrong. (It’s not.)

  This is the second time the museum has come under fire for its treatment of the second African American member of the Supreme Court. 

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• SOURCE: The Post and Courier
  6/9/2019
  

  Historians at South Carolina museum expand its telling of area’s African American history

  The museum contracted with historian Dr. Edwin Breeden to research on the area’s African American residents.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/28/19
  

  Smithsonian names Lonnie Bunch III as new secretary, the first African American in the top spot

  Lonnie G. Bunch III, director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, will become the next secretary of the Smithsonian.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  5/14/19
  

  The new Statue of Liberty Museum is a quiet paean to America’s embrace of immigrants—but what is there to celebrate?

  The elegant little Statue of Liberty Museum opens to the public later this week and provides, at last, a consolation prize for the tourists who land on Liberty Island each year.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  5/6/19
  

  A Reimagined Spy Museum in Washington Doesn’t Flinch From the Darker Side

  Built for $162 million, the museum features flashy interactive exhibits but also grapples with intelligence failures, out-of-control surveillance and torture.

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• SOURCE: The North Star
  5/7/19
  

  Lawmakers Renew Efforts To Open ‘The National Museum Of The American Latino’

  A bipartisan group of lawmakers reintroduced a bill to establish the National Museum of the American Latino in Washington, DC.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/29/19
  

  Should These Clothes Be Saved?

  Thousands of articles of everyday women’s clothing are being preserved in lockers in a college basement. But where, exactly, does their value lie?

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/30/19
  

  A Holocaust Story for the Social Media Generation

  Eva’s Instagram account, based on a diary kept by the real Eva Heyman in 1944, goes live Wednesday afternoon for the start of Israel’s annual Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/1/19
  

  Waking Up to History

  by Margaret Renkl

  At new museums, the past is finally becoming more than the story of men and wars.

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• 4/2/19
  

  ROOAARRRR: 66 Million Years of Tales about the Big, Bad T-Rex Dinosaur

  by Bruce Chadwick

  If you love dinosaurs and/or being chased by one, this exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History is for you. Bring the kids.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  3/29/29
  

  Pair of bipartisan senators propose women's history museum in DC

  Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine and Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California introduced their legislation Friday.

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• SOURCE: Science Magazine
  3/27/19
  

  Countries demand their fossils back, forcing natural history museums to confront their past

  The story of Giraffatitan's discovery in eastern Africa long ignored the crimes of German colonialism and the scientific contributions of local residents.  

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian.com
  3/25/19
  

  Smithsonian’s “Double Exposure” photo book series depicts black Americans championing their lives through photography

  For Turn-of-the-Century African-Americans, the Camera Was a Tool for Empowerment

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/20/19
  

  What’s Wrong With This Diorama? You Can Read All About It

  Dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History have been amended in a way that allows museumgoers to see the historical inaccuracies exhibits often perpetuate.

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• SOURCE: Vice News
  3/8/19
  

  The Holocaust Prisoners Who Risked Their Lives to Sneak Evidence from Concentration Camps

  A new exhibition at London's Wiener Library tells the story of the men and women who enlightened the world as to what was happening in the extermination camps.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/12/19
  

  The Missouri Museum That Churchill Built

  The exhibition focuses on Churchill’s journey, but it builds context through immersive galleries of World War I trenches, the rise of fascism in Europe, and the London Blitz.